We had a very enjoyable morning birding the grasslands near the town of Arroyos y Esteros. The start was nice and early, so we had chance to drive to the Juan de Mena road just in time for first light. As expected the morning acitivity was very good, but within a few hours the day had gotten warm and the acitivty had died down. In those few hours we managed to find almost all of our main targets!
It started a little slowly, but within half
an hour I managed to find the most important species, the Strange-tailed
Tyrant, with a male performing in the road, even sitting on the tarmac. Sadly
it was not especially approachable, and that proved to be the case of the other
11 individuals that we found during the morning, with only a female showing
nicely for photos.
In
addition, we had a very nice performance from at least four Crested Doraditos,
including a single male. Another Ibera Seedeater put in an appearance, but it
did not show especially well. Additionally, we saw Scarlet-headed Blackbird, Unicolored
Blackbird, a late Spectacled Tyrant and a host of other nice wetland birds. It
was extremely enjoyable.
Once it got hot, we made a short stop at the
area I had birded on the first day, where we found Tawny-bellied Seedeater
again, as well as another Ibera Seedeater, but the day was already getting hot
and so we headed back to Asuncion.
Once in Asuncion we sorted out some
logistics, and spent the afternoon get ourselves sorted. Sadly we did have to
pay a parking fine after our car was clamped for apparently parking in the
wrong location, but otherwise all went smoothly. One more day to go in Paraguay!
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